Lars And The Real Girl

Year: 2007

Grade: C-

Country: USA

Director: Gillespie

Review

there’s not much real about this film. what’s his face’s performance was interesting, but not nearly as good as his work in half nelson. the pop psychology was so transparent, obvious and obnoxious that i was actually annoyed by the time the film finally wrapped up. there was a certain potential in the symbolism of the doll and lars’ delusion, but there simply wasn’t enough meat to make for a feature film.

the most interesting thing about this movie is that i know the guy who does many of the dolls featured on the webpage in the film. he was a parttime tattoo artist in davis and he made plenty of money making lonely guys happy with plastic dolls.

Watched in theater